Library Resource Guide for: CARIBBEAN STUDIES

Individual Databases for Caribbean Studies

Africa:

African Studies Abstracts Online
ASA Online succeeds the printed abstracts journal of the African Studies Centre in Leiden (Netherlands). ASA has been in print since 1968, first under the title Documentatieblad, then as African Studies Abstracts (1994-2002). It provides a quarterly overview of journal articles and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the Library of the African Studies Centre.

Contemporary Africa Database
A product of the Africa Centre, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, with the aim to provide information on African people, organisations and history, on a single website. The database is divided into three sections: (1) People: A Who's Who of prominent Africans now living or who have died since 1950, in all fields of expertise, for example artists, political luminaries, scientists, business-people etc (online). (2) Institution Africa: A directory of African institutions including governments, pan-African bodies, non-governmental organisations, and significant businesses (online). (3) Chronology Africa: A chronology of important events and dates in the contemporary African calendar, for example political events, festivals, birthdays, commemorations. (Build-date 2005). The project is ongoing and the database in continuously updated.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online    
Current; a reference site for students and educators synthesizing editorially reviewed websites and the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Economics:

EconLit  
1969-present; a comprehensive index to the worldwide literature on economics compiled by the American Economic Association from over 300 major economics journals.

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Data Services    
The EIU DataServices portfolio comprises the following global business databases: EIU Country Data, a comprehensive database of economic indicators and forecasts, covering more than 320 economic series for 150 countries, as well as 45 regional aggregates, running from 1980 and forecasting out five years; EIU Market Indicators & Forecasts, a powerful database of economic, demographic, consumption and industry data on 60 major countries, stretching back to 1990 and forward five years; EIU City Data, a global database of product prices and business costs providing over 330 prices levels on more than 160 products and services in 123 cities worldwide from 1990 to the present, and Combination of Country Data and Market Indicators, which is a combination of EIU Country Data and EIU Market Indicators & Forecasts.

Environment:

Environmental Issues and Policy Index  
Current; The Environmental Issues and Policy Index provides abstract/index information for over 1000 titles in the area of environmental policy and studies. The product has an Environment thesaurus that will assist users in research.

Gender Studies:

Gender Studies Database    
1972-present; Gender Studies Database, produced by NISC, combines the Women’s Studies International database and Men’s Studies databases to provide coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. It includes links to freely available and indexed full text articles and documents on the Web. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.

Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online    
This collection is considered to be the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and 15 languages. The broad scope of Gerritsen Online allows scholars to trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country's movement on those of the others. Gerritsen Online consists of two segments: the Periodical Series and the Monograph Language Series.

General and Interdisciplinary:

Academic Search Premier    
Current; multi-discipline, full text database, designed for the academic community. Includes full text coverage for just under 4,700 journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.

JSTOR    
Provides image and full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title.

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Project Muse    
Project Muse is a searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title. As of 6/2004, includes links to JSTOR.

World News Connection (WNC)    
1994 to present; an online news service of translated and English-language news and information. From non-U.S. media sources, WNC covers socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events within 24-72 hours of the original broadcast. Regional categories covered include: Central Eurasia, China, East Asia, Near East & South Asia, East Europe, West Europe, The Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

WorldCat  
Books, journals, sound recordings, videos and manuscripts collected and catalogued by your library and libraries around the world. WorldCat does not include individual articles, stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters.

Government and political science:

Polling the Nations  
1986-present; Polling the Nations is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries. Each of the records reports a question asked and the responses given, the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and the universe, i.e., the groups or areas included in the interview.

World Population Policies 2003

History:

Historical Abstracts  
1954-present; article abstracts and citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Excludes the U. S. and Canada.

Language Resources:

ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)    
Over 2,600 texts (mostly scholarly editions) ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The powerful search and retrieval engine, PhiloLogic3, enables scholars to perform textual analysis, and to limit and extend both the searches and search results from various points of view.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts  
1973-present; LLBA covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

Latin America:

Bases de Datos del CSIC  
Created by the Center for Scientific Information and Documentation (CINDOC) for the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Spain, the Bases de Datos del CSIC contains three databases that index Spanish journals and conference papers.

• ISOC - 1975-present; contains seventeen subdatabases in the social sciences and humanities.
  

• ICYT - 1979-present; contains ten subdatabases on science and technology.
  

• IME - 1971-present; biomedicine.

Note: The search engine is not sensitive to accents and diacritics other than the tilde in the letter ñ. The letter n alone cannot act as a replacement. In such cases replace ñ with the truncation symbol *, or copy and paste this letter from a word processing program.

CARINDEX—index of West Indian journals
"CARINDEX is an index to the contents of West Indian journals, published in the Caribbean region. It also includes theses, papers presented at conferences, collections of working papers, etc. CARINDEX is published in two parts. CARSAH covers publications in the social sciences and humanities from 1983 onwards. CARSCI covers publications in science and technology from 1960 onwards."

Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
1935-present; An annual bibliography prepared by a group of scholars and published under the auspices of the Library of Congress. It lists new publications under broad subject headings, and includes annotations. [This resource is publicly available.]

Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI)  
1970-present; HAPI is an online source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Included are complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in over 400 key scholarly social science and humanities journals published worldwide.

Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents - LAPTOC
"LAPTOC is a searchable Web database that provides access to the tables of contents of more than 800 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America."

Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe (Red ALyC)
"Red ALyC es un proyecto impulsado por la Universidad Autónoma de Estado de México (UAEM), con el objetivo de contribuir a la difusión de la actividad científica editorial que se produce en y sobre Iberoamérica."

SciELO Scientific Electronic Library Online
Covers electronic academic publications from Brazil, Chile, Cuba and Spain.

Literature:

Literature and Culture of Francophone Africa and the Diaspora/Littérature et Culture de l'Afrique Francophone et de la Diaspora
Current; a bilingual site that features selected internet resources on primarily Francophone African & Diasporic cultural expression.

MLA International Bibliography  
1926-present; the MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The electronic version of the bibliography contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism Select  
Accessible as part of Literature Resource Center. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.

Medicine and Public Health:

LILACS
Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences

Newspapers:

Nineteenth (19th) Century Masterfile  
1802-early 20th Century; provides online access to an enhanced version of the major Anglo-American subject index for periodicals of the 19th century, as well as a number of other general and publication specific indexes for journals, newspapers, and books of the era. Now includes Catalogue of Scientific Papers!

Times Digital Archive (London)    
1795-1985; researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

Politics and Government:

AccessUN    
1944-present; provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)    
1991-present; designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, books, journals, policy briefs, and proceedings from conferences.

International Political Science Abstracts    
1989-present; abstracts information from major journals in political science, including public law, and international relations.

PAIS International    
1972-present; includes periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, and Internet resources. Subjects include politics, public policy, government, international relations, law and ethics, human rights, economics, business, finance, and other social sciences. SEARCH PAIS International and the PAIS Archive(1937-1976) simultaneously.

Religion:

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials    
1949-present; the ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Links are provided to 100,000 full text articles in ATLASerials, from more than fifty journals selected by religion scholars in the United States. Full text resources from the Religion and Philosophy Collection are also linked within this database.

Sociology:

Ethnic NewsWatch and ENW: A History    
1980-present; Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press beginning in 1990. ENW: A History covers the years 1960-1989. The experiences and contributions of African Americans, Hispanics, Native Peoples, Asian Americans, European Americans, Jewish Americans and Arab Americans illuminate three critical decades in U.S. and world history.

POPLINE  
POPLINE 1974-present; but also includes older substantive literature. POPLINE has information on topics relating to population such as demography, vital statistics, family planning, and related health, law,and policy issues. POPLINE indexes books, book chapters, journal articles, technical reports, conference papers, theses, dissertations, laws, bills, court decisions, and unpublished reports.

Statistics:

Current Index to Statistics Extended Database  
1974-present; a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. The database indexes both journals and books.

Monthly Bulletin of Statistics (United Nations)  
Current; monthly economic statistics for most the countries and areas of the world. In addition, each month a different selection of special tables is presented showing annual and/or quarterly data on a variety of subjects illustrating important economic long-term trends and developments. {This resource is publicly available.]

World Development Indicators    
Current; published by the World Bank, WDI contains statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data from 1960-2003 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.